Success Stories
Melanie, Class of 2012, from Indonesia
"One very good feature of SRH is the small size of the classes. You have more interaction with the students [and] you can interact more with the professors... They know your name. You know everyone in the class.
I had an excellent experience with Professor Burger-Menzel, in her intercultural management class. She is full of energy, which she projects in the classroom. The content, the way she teaches, her interaction with the students - it's a total package. I had her for two classes - Intercultural Management and Global Cultural Management. We learned business communication across different cultures."
Michael, Class of 2012, from Australia
“Getting a Master’s degree in Germany as a foreigner is really great. It's in English, but its not British or American, it’s an education with a European perspective, Continental Law and the European Union. These are very important to know if you want to do international business.
I also feel more interculturally aware. Try spending a year with students from 11 other countries and listen to how differently we respond to the same business case study. It changes the way you think about people accept more complexity as normal."
Ariuna, Class of 2008, from Mongolia
"I was immediately intrigued by the Master's degree offered in International Management. It sounded challenging, interesting, and wide enough in scope to prepare me for my goals in project management. SRH is a small private university, which provided a close relationship with my professors, face-to-face course studies, and the opportunity to experience real problems and to solve them with the help from my teachers and classmates.
Working collaboratively with fellow students was a truly memorable experience. I developed the ability to work in a team with others: discussing problems, expressing my viewpoint, and learning from the diverse backgrounds which make up our academic community. SRH has a warm atmosphere and it was there that I was able to find new ambition and realize my vision for my life."
Tim Müller, Class of 2011, from Germany
"What I thought was really good at SRH were disciplines like Strategic Networking and Management, offered not only from the company side, but answered questions like: How can I create innovations through networking through strategic management? How can I be more efficient? The soft skills part was really intensive and also necessary and is now benefiting my job.
Who was my favorite professor? Mr. Eichhorn of course. He is really beneficial to the program. He’s always looking at how to develop the program further and how to make the program meet the students’ demands. If you are teaching management, you have to look at demands and the wishes of the students, because that is the product he is providing. He always had a really open ear for everything and since we are also a young university, it’s good for students to contribute their thoughts on the program."
Svetlana, Class of 2011, from Estonia
"Where was my favorite place to study out of the 3 locations? I would say it was Berlin. I wanted to get out of Dublin and Berlin was the first place I went to. Berlin is a very vibrant city... And I have a few friends in Berlin so that was easier for me to get around. I was in Berlin previously on several occasions, and I think the city is very lively. You actually feel the vibe of liveliness going through the city itself. I really enjoyed myself during that time, even though that winter was very very cold.
I chose to do the Tripartite Masters program instead of a 1-year Master's program, even though it took twice as long, but in the end I got 2 degrees – from Berlin and Paris, which made my educational portfolio international, as I now have degrees from Ireland, Germany and France. I got an opportunity to travel and learned to be flexible and adaptable in different conditions and within different multinational working groups."
Magdalena, Class of 2011, from Germany
"The Tripartite Programme provided a great opportunity to develop interpersonal skills with the flexibility to handle rapidly changing schedules and shifting work priorities in different environments. By studying within constantly changing international groups in Berlin, Dublin and Paris I learned how to develop the ability of matching diversity.
Diversity can have a considerable impact on the final work performance. One pre-condition for that is to understand that every team member is important and can contribute a considerable part due to his/ her uniqueness. Once cross-cultural teams understood the benefit of a diverse team, they managed higher work loads in a shorter period of time with a better end-result than those teams that consisted of mainly strong leaders. It is not important how many strong team members you have within your group. It is important to identify the individual strengths of each single member and then to allocate the right task to the right member. So, yes, the programme helped me to become more flexible."
Luis, Class of 2012, from Panama
“One of the most valuable aspects of the Tripartite Program was the multicultural and international environment within the class room. I believe the fact that there were so many nationalities within the classmates and faculty enabled us to understand and tolerate different perspectives, opinions and point of views; which ultimately I believe to be the most important characteristic to learn in the path to become an international professional. It has truly been an incredibly experience that has enriched my life in many ways.”
